fee proposals would charge customers nine dollars per kilowatt during four summer months. Customers will be charged two dollars or three dollars per kilowatt during the remaining months of the year. Households with a smaller number of solar panels would likely see their rates go up under the proposal. The utility companies say that the demand fees are necessary because all customers must contribute to pay for the system that is capable of meeting spikes in demand. Customers who use a small amount of electricity because they produce some of their own via solar panels do not pay enough to cover their portion of transmission and distribution systems, according to the utility companies. The Demand Fees were allowed because of a 2014 law which allowed solar customers to be charged "differently". The legality of Demand Fees were questioned in court by the Sierra Club and Earthjustice on the basis that an existing law from 1980 guaranteed that customers who generated renewable energy couldn't be charged more than customers who didn't. Although the Sierra Club lost in both the lower and appellate courts, they persisted until the Kansas Supreme Court heard the case. The Kansas Supreme Court ruled on 3 April 2020 that the 1980 law was still in effect. The 2014 law allowed the utility company to charge solar customers "differently" but not MORE. Eventually, the KCC ruled that Westar (now Evergy) had to give back the Demand Fees which they collected. Kentucky In early 2018, a bill was proposed in the Kentucky Legislature that could dramatically alter net metering within the state. House Bill 227 would reduce the credit that rooftop solar owners receive when they send electricity back to the grid by as much as 65 percent. HB 227 is moving across the legislature. Tyler White, the president of the Kentucky Coal Association, who supports the bill, has said that net metering is paramount to a renewable energy subsidy. The reason is because only some people (those without solar) pay to maintain the electric grid, while others (those with solar power systems) do not, despite the fact that everyone uses the grid. According to White, "Germany has spent hundreds of billions of dollars on solar and wind, yet they provide only 3 percent of its total energy. The average German pays 3 times more for electricity than the average American." In Kentucky, there are more than 2.2 million